IT Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IT Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 329 452
Rank change year-on-year +32 +123 +161
Contract jobs requiring an IT Consultant 7 16 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.10% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 20
10th Percentile £415 £368 £420
25th Percentile £472 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -6.10% +22.41%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £628
90th Percentile £675 £730 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £520
% change year-on-year -1.41% +2.40% +9.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured IT Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Consultant.

IT Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IT Consultant over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IT Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IT Consultant.

IT Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring IT Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (28.57%) GRC
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Nessus
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) AutoCAD
4 1 (14.29%) Autodesk
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (14.29%) CISSP
4 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
4 1 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (14.29%) CISM
4 1 (14.29%) Process Management

IT Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) AutoCAD
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
1 1 (14.29%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP GRC
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
1 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Major Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Process Management
3 1 (14.29%) SIAM
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Autodesk
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) Snow